Seasoned Oak in Hampshire, West Sussex.

[RossJarvis]

Can anyone recommend a supplier of seasoned oak in the Hampshire West Sussex area. Looking for good seasoned oak 4"x4" for porch construction.

Cheers

Ross

 

[Woody2Shoes]

Hi - Covers in Chichester have loads of oak. You could also try EWT at Cocking, or maybe Sydenhams at Wickkam or J F Goodwillie at Waterlooville. Cheers, W2S

 

[Sailormantom]

I have used both English Woodlands Timber (I think this is the EWT referred to by woody2shoes) and W L West near Midhurst and both have plenty of oak. in my experience they are very welcoming to smaller buyers such as myself.

Cheers, tom

 

[custard]

Hello Ross, I'm not an Oak framer or joiner so this is outside my area of expertise, but a lot will depend on what you mean by "well seasoned".

The oak framing boys that I know always work in wet Oak, and by and large they source their big wet Oak sections from France in order to get the quality they're looking for.

Four inch thick Oak is close to the limit for kilning, if that's what you mean by well seasoned, and the price is always high to reflect the very extended processing time with thicker sections. Furthermore it's been my experience that quality problems with kilned Oak also go up in step with material thickness. Logical really as the temptation for the timber mill to accelerate the processing time rises with thickness, and that results in checking, honeycombing, and the dreaded "yellow patches", which unfortunately seems to be on the increase with Oak everywhere.

Given your location I'd visit EWT in person, talk it through with them, and physically inspect their stock. EWT carry both air dried and kilned Oak in 100mm thickness. If you do go for kilned then I'd suggest you ask if they kilned the timber or if they bought it in ready kilned. They have had some problems with yellow patches recently but never on the timber they kiln themselves.

Good luck!

 

[DiscoStu]

As per W2S, I'd say that Goodwillies is probably a good shout.


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[RossJarvis]

Thanks guys, I know Goodwillies but it's good to have more choice. I think I'll pop over to EWT.

I don't want to use green oak as this will be a glazed porch and want to minimise shrinkage and movement. The last oak I worked with was supposedly "seasoned" but was in fact green and sopping inside.

 

[custard]

Thanks guys, I know Goodwillies but it's good to have more choice. I think I'll pop over to EWT.

A neighbour of yours in Petersfield, the Barnsley Workshops, has recently been buying in Oak from EWT. I guess that's a pretty good recommendation.

 

[RossJarvis]

A neighbour of yours in Petersfield, the Barnsley Workshops, has recently been buying in Oak from EWT. I guess that's a pretty good recommendation.

Yep, that's a good recommendation, have visited there a few times, great place.